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- From: rosscampbell@xxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Aug 2006 12:11:51 -0700
Name: john Steele
Subject: Your faith
Question: How does your religion differ from other faiths? Please send
me the basic intentions and beliefs of the religion. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Answer: Dear John,
You have asked how the Baha'i Faith differs from other Faiths.
The most significant difference is the Promise that "This is the day
which will not be followed by night". All earlier religions
degenerated spiritually into apostate conditions, and remain thus
today. The Baha'i Faith, as promised, continually has an authorized
living interpreter of our Baha'i Holy Writings.
I was once expelled from the ceremony in a Buddhist Temple which I was
invited to visit, evidently because I was obeying the instructions of
the Founder of the Buddhist Faith. The Christian and Muslim Faiths
have deteriorated into a multitude of conflicting sects, often
contradictory in their interpretations and teachings.
For the duration of the Millennium, the Baha'i Faith will be protected
from that spiritual decline by the continual presence on Earth of a
living authorized interpreter of Baha'i Holy Text and Holy Writ.
Concerning the "intentions and beliefs" of the Baha'i Faith about which
you have asked, Baha'is believe that the Baha'i Dispensation is the
Dispensation of the fulfillment of Holy Prophecy, including and
especially such prophecies as that of His Holiness the Christ, Who
spoke of God's Kingdom which would come to Earth so that God's Will
will become accomplished "on Earth as it is in Heaven". The
Dispensation of the Lord Christ was not a Dispensation of fulfillment,
but rather a prophetic Dispensation. The Baha'i Faith is a
Dispensation of fulfillment of Holy Prophecy.
The Founder of the Baha'i Faith wrote: "The Earth is but one country,
and mankind its citizens."
Baha'is believe that the 2300 prophetic "days" of the Bible Book Daniel
ended in 1844, and the great Millerite Movement of the Midnight Cry,
during the early 1840's accurately foretold the return of the Lord
Christ. Their understanding of the meaning of some words in the
Christian Greek Scriptures caused them to have flaws in their
understanding of the manner by which the Lord would return. The Greek
word "astrape" found at Matthew 24 verse 27 is one example. It is
Strong's Greek word 796 and Strong offers the alternate meanings
"glare" and "bright shining" which more accurately describe the "bright
morning star", the sun, which "emerges" from the East" and "shines to
the West". Lightning doesn't "emerge" from the "East" necessarily. It
is local, and often between clouds in various directions, and often
from the ground to clouds. His Holiness the Christ identified Himself
to be "the bright morning star" in Revelation chapter 22. He is not
literally the sun, of course, and
therefore it is a metaphor, and has spiritual significance. Thus He
is speaking metaphorically as recorded in Matthew chapter 24, verses 27
and 28.
Please feel welcome to write me at my regular e-mail address:
rosscampbell@xxxxxxx
Cordially,
Ross
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